Agnes a singer in a country church is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job Over the objections of the curate who loves her she accepts the offer and goes to the city Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business he asks her to return to the small town with him When she refuses he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul This brings about her change of heart and together they return to the little church